Last year, my sister and I took our four-year-old nephew to (1)___________ the Chingay procession along Orchard Road. We reached there an hour (2)____________ it started. (3)_____________ the streets were already lined with (4)__________ who wanted to get a good (5)______________ of the procession.
The procession (6)______________ on time. We saw the dragon dances and the brightly decorated floats. Some dancers, (7)_____________ in Chinese costumes and wearing big masks over their (8)____________ , were teasing the lions with their fans (9)____________ they danced. There were martial (10)____________ demonstration by various pugilistic groups. Some (11)_____________ waved big colorful flags while others tried to jump (12)_____________ the moving flags. It was then that I noticed that my little nephew had (13)_____________. My sister and I were alarmed. We searched (14)____________ him in the crowd, but we could not (15)____________ him. Finally, we went to the police post tot (16)_______________ a report. There, (17)____________ our relief, we found (18)______________ , playing with an officer’s hat. Apparently, the naughty little boy (19)_____________ followed the ice-cream man, got (20)____________ , and was taken to the police-post by a kind passer-by.